Player Prompt

Mikko always loved hockey growing up, but he never laced up the skates as a young kid.  Rashford's parents appreciated his involvement in soccer and didn't want to push him to change his passion if Mikko didnt want to.  But over the years as he got closer to the age of 7, 8, and 9.  Other parents kept noting how Mikko was the best ball hockey player of all of the kids in the area.  Even better than the ones who played on the Ice year round.

That all changed at the age of 10, when Mother Rashford decided it was time to try the sport for good.  Rashford hadn't skated before, and jumping into tryouts for competitive teams was a massive learning curve "wait, these kids know how to stop?"

But that was all it took.  Rashford soon fell in love with the sport and never looked back.  The sport that would take him around the world and be a focal passion each and every day.  Though, Mikko loves to return home to Finland, grab a beat up old wooden hockey stick, and battle it out on the streets just like when he was a little kid.